zahuatl

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms
  • çahuatl
  • çáhuátl, çăhuătl (Carochi)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sawatɬ/

Noun

zahuatl

  1. Pox; rash.
    • 17C: Chimalpahin, "Don Gabriel de Ayala's Year Count", f. 80r.
      ¶ xi calli xihuitl 1529 años ypan in çahuatl momanaco totomonihuac
      (The year Eleven House, 1529. At this time smallpox prevailed; there were blisters.)
    • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 127r:
      Çáhuátl, ambas breues, sarna, ò viruelas, ò cosas semejante.
      (Çahuatl, with both vowels short, rash, smallpox, or the like.)
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Derived terms

References
  • Carochi, Horacio (2001) Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), trans. and ed. by James Lockhart, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 468–469
  • Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, trans. and ed. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 236–237
  • Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 345
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